Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Exploring my Perseverance in Power BI

For the past 6 months, I have been working on a Power BI project which requires a full premium capacity. I started self-learning Power BI in March, after two months, I realized that I need to get more professional. So my company paid me to get professional training with certified tutors. It is very necessary to get professional training to not only learn from the professional tutors but also build connections with your professional classmates due to their years of work experience.

I have had a very pleasant study journey gaining much knowledge in Power BI, but unfortunately, the certified tutor is not familiar with how to accomplish the specific layout or design I want to create. So she referred me to other certified professionals. After discussing with other certified professionals, without working on practical projects with this specific layout, they couldn't give me a solid solution about how to accomplish this design.

I posted two questions in the Power BI community and have patiently waited for a long time: 

1. The reply to the first question from the support team: this function is not supported by Power BI yet

2. The reply to the second question from the support team: simply repeat my question

How should I feel at this point? Should I give up? As a newbie in Power BI, I have been told by several certified professionals with over 10 years of work experience that this function is not supported by Power BI yet, it is impossible to create the design I want. I appreciate the discussion with the professionals and their ideas and suggestions are priceless in inspiring me.

At one point, I did want to give up lacking confidence and practical experience. But I know I cannot give up, it's not because this is my job, it is my personality. I always want to make something impossible to be possible with my perseverance. 

Fortunately, I shared my concerns with one of my classmates during the training. He coincidentally has worked on the same project before. Both of us are aware that Power BI doesn't support this function yet, so we decided to install a third-party tool to Power BI and then change the settings. God bless, the first big problem is solved and I consider this is the first milestone of the whole project. No words can express how much I appreciate that college's help and we are friends now. He mentioned that this solution does not come from study, this comes from real practical work experience. As the Power BI project will go live shortly within his company, I might be helpful in giving him ideas and suggestions.

There is still another big problem, what should I do? This project can only be done by Power BI paginated reports using reports builder. Power BI online service and desktop are not enough. Paginated reports previously are called SSRS. I have done for months is to explore the resources as much as I can, there are youtube tutorials for Paganiated reports or SSRS, then watch them one by one, day and night, weekends, trying to get inspiration to fit into my project. I believe once you have pushed yourself to some point, you will get some breakthroughs, just don't give up.

Now the project is going live with many people's help within my company and other companies. I'm sure there will still be this or that issue. What I need to tell myself is, be confident, be strong, trust myself and have faith that I will solve all the upcoming problems. 

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